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Field Activity Details for field activity 12CNT05

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Other ID: Woolpert_FIIS

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards(1) (MN000J7)

Data Source Information: WOOLPERT

Information Specialist(s): Kara Doran

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Start Date: 2012-11-05

End Date: 2012-11-05

Equipment Used: Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Notes:

Location:

Fire Island, New York

Boundaries
North: 40.790472 South: 40.602927 West: -73.3658 East: -72.7031

Platform(s):

Publications

Birchler, J.J., Dalyander, P.S., Stockdon, H.F., Doran, K.S., 2015, National assessment of nor'easter-induced coastal erosion hazards: mid- and northeast Atlantic coast: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1154, 41 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151154.

Doran, K.S., Long, J.W., Birchler, J.J.,, B., O.T., Hardy, M.W., Morgan, K.L.M., Stockdon, H.F., Torres, M.L., 2017, Lidar-derived beach morphology (dune crest, dune toe, and shoreline) for U.S. sandy coastlines: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7GF0S0Z.

Hapke, C.J., Brenner, O., Hehre, R., Reynolds, B.J., 2013, Coastal Change from Hurricane Sandy and the 2012-2013 Winter Storm Season: Fire Island, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1231, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131231.

Hapke, C.J., Plant, N.G., Henderson, R.E., Schwab, W.C., Nelson, T.R., 2016, Decoupling processes and scales of shoreline morphodynamics: Marine Geology, v. 381, pp. 42–53, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2016.08.008.

Long, J.W., Henderson, R.E., Thompson, D.M., 2020, Forecasting future beach width-A case study along the Florida Atlantic coast: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2019-1150, 20 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20191150.

Plant, N.G., Smith, K.E.L., Passeri, D.L., Smith, C.G., Bernier, J.C., 2018, Barrier-island and estuarine-wetland physical-change assessment after Hurricane Sandy: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1157, 45 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171157.

Stockdon, H.F., Doran, K.J., Sopkin, K.L., Smith, K.E.L., Fredericks, X., 2013, Coastal topography-Northeast Atlantic coast, post-hurricane Sandy, 2012: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 765, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds765.

Stockdon, H.F., Long, J.W., Palmsten, M.L., Van der Westhuysen, A., Doran, K.S., Snell, R.J., 2023, Operational forecasts of wave-driven water levels and coastal hazards for US Gulf and Atlantic coasts: Communications Earth & Environment, v. 4 no. 1, 169 p., doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00817-2.

Williams, B.N., Schreppel, H.A., Stalk C.A., 2019, Footprints of lidar datasets published at the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center since 2001: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9B616C5.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) --- LIDAR
12CNT05_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20121105 Post-Sandy in New York)
12CNT05-LI-pd-7 (published lidar DEMs new york)
12CNT05-LI-rd-1 (raw lidar data)
12CNT05-LI-pd-2 (lidar derived dune crest New York)
12CNT05-LI-pd-4 (lidar derived shorelines New York)
12CNT05-LI-pd-3 (lidar derived dune toe New York)

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